Sociology of Social Work [ LSOC2220 ]
5.0 crédits ECTS
30.0 h
1q
| Teacher(s) |
Franssen Abraham ;
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| Language |
French
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Place
of the course |
Louvain-la-Neuve
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| Main themes |
- Main paradigms, theories and concepts of the sociology of social work. Key-words: "social-assistance", cultural model, ideologies, system, image of the subject ;
- History and historicity of social work: " métamorphoses de la question sociale " (R.Castel), " invention du social " (J. Donzelot). Key-words : social question, exclusion (production of -) ,
- Characterization of the contemporary evolutions of the "social-assistance" sector : Key-words : from the Institution to the systems, Social Active State, subjectivation, responsibility, territory, network, risks management, supervision of the intimate ;
- Analysis of the construction of the profession and of professional identities in the field of social work. Key-words: professionalisation, role, identity tensions ;
- Micro-sociological analysis of the "assistance" relation. Key-words: interaction, social actor, trick ;
- Analysis of the social subjected's modes of identity construction . Key-words: shame, relational management, recogni-tion.
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| Aims |
- To master the main classical and contemporary paradigms, theories and concepts for the analysis of social work ;
- To put social work practices in their general and historical context and to characterize contemporary systems (Active Social State)
- To be able to analyse systems and social work practices a) making a distinction between, and articulating, macro, meso and micro levels of analysis ; b) according to the institutional (public policies entry) and "praxeological" ap-proaches (agents and the public entry) ; c) according to the sequential approach (upstream: the construction of categories of intervention, downstream: analysis of the effects)
- To master and be able to put into practice evaluation criteria (including social and political philosophy) for policies and practices of social work ;
- To have the knowledge and access to resources to locate oneself in the field of social work in Belgium, with elements of comparison with European (France, UK) and North-American models.
- To appropriate theoretical concepts and methodological tools for the understanding of the social worker and its publics' personnel history and construction of identity.
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| Content |
Poverty is first and foremost the result of a process of political, social and mediatical construction and categorization which leads to the designation of social categories considered as marginal, and which defines the " appropriate " treatment (sanc-tion or help
), and distinguishes " good " and " bad " poors.
For a few years, the " Social Active State " vocabulary has imposed itself for the legitimization of new modes of State inter-vention, increasingly based on encouragement measures and systems of follow-up encouraging the activation of social beneficiaries (unemployed, social assisted). The leading questions will be the following:
-How are social policies constructed ? How do images of "good" and "bad " poor evolve ? What are the ideological divisions on the Active Social State ?
- Which normative transformations affect social work professionals ? How do they impact on their professional roles and identities? How do they react to recompose their roles and identities (individually and collectively, discursively and practi-cally)?
- What are the modes of identity management of one's social experience ? How do people construct themselves as subjects when they are " subjected " ?
Pedagogically, each lecture will include a detailed report on a selected theme, based on existing research on public policies (social policies, " prevention and security " policies, criminal law policies) and on their conse-quences for their operators and beneficiaries. The lecture will also rely on the analysis of documents, visual or written, and of research material (interviews, observation reports) submitted to the students.
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| Other information |
The evaluation will rely on the making of a personal work. The students will be asked, individually or in sub-groups, to analyse a concrete system in the field of social work, in relation to the catego-ries of analysis and of questioning described in the course. This work will be subject to a first oral presentation by the student, allowing a critical discussion and a formative evaluation.
The formative and certificative evaluation will be based on explicit criteria of (i) quality of the sys-tem description, (ii) of conceptual mastery and (iii) of reasoning coherence.
- A synthetic syllabus including the structure of the course and theoretical contributions;
- A portfolio of readings, constituted of texts of reference, will serve as a basis or as an illustra-tion for the presentation. Students may be requested to prepare the texts' reading and analy-sis;
- A portfolio of illustrative and iconographical material.
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Cycle et année
d'étude |
> Master [120] in Sociology
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Faculty or entity
in charge |
> PSAD
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